Examples of monotonous in a Sentence

Altogether, millions of mostly obscure entries in the public record offer details of a forced labor system of monotonous enormity.— Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name, 2008At times, the grayness of the place was consumed by its own monotonous noise, of bars clanging, of inmates being led through the corridors, of guards yelling out orders …— Benjamin Weiser, New York Times Magazine, 6 Aug. 2000The monotonous chant of the indoctrinated, ideologically armored from head to foot …— Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 1997The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.— John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, 1984
the lecturer's monotonous delivery threatened to put us to sleep

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